Sentences with phrase «of utility customers»

The SGCC study consisted of a nation - wide survey of utility customers who were asked to rate the importance of several smart grid benefits, namely:

Now more than ever, these state regulators are charged with looking out for the best interests of utility customers in states that have regulated electric and other utilities.

«More than 5 million of our utility customers are still exposed to the uncertainties of competitive markets,» he said.

The number of utility customers voluntarily purchasing «green power» in the Northwest topped 100,000 for the first time ever in 2005, according to a new report released today by the Renewable Northwest Project (RNP).

Lineworkers do deserve credit for working hard to restore power to millions of utility customers in Florida.

Power is still out for thousands of utility customers in the Southern Tier in the wake of the late week snowstorm that dumped up to two feet of heavy, wet snow

Moreover, Treon (TXO) is on its way to bring a large number of new users into the crypto space by connecting billions of utility customers to the blockchain.

PREPA executive director Ricardo Ramos meanwhile was optimistic that Puerto Rico could hit Rosselló's target of getting electricity back to 95 percent of utility customers before the end of the year.

As of March 20, 7 percent of utility customers still couldn't turn on the lights, refrigerate food, or run water pumps.

The outage comes at an especially embarrassing time, following an announcement from government officials that they had restored electricity to 50 percent of utility customers.

Increasing numbers of utility customers are using net metering to generate electricity on their property.

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

«Those pushing for net neutrality think the world would work better if the Internet was somehow magically transformed into a public utility, like a water or electricity company, with the FCC and state regulators setting rates, overseeing investment, and micromanaging relationships between providers and customers,» Downes says, adding the result would be devastating to the smooth functioning of ISP networks.

Your business faces plenty of threats — from fire to fraud, from dishonest employees to discontented customers to disconnected utilities.

A look at this list as a whole reveals something altogether more interesting than who had the greatest number of grumpy customers: of the worst 20 companies in the index, seven were telecommunications companies, five were airlines, and four were public utilities.

We also contacted Allete, a company whose Minnesota Power (MP) utility serves more than 140,000 state residents and «some of the nation's largest industrial customers.»

Residential customers of Scana's SCE&G utility will get an average of $ 1,000 within 90 days of the deal being completed.

Nest thermostats will also go to families using Fannie Mae's low - to moderate - income mortgage program and to income - qualified customers of utility companies.

In creating Utility Concierge, he simultaneously engineered a dynamic company culture to attract star talent and create a cohesive group of passionate professionals ready to deliver incredible customer experiences.

He described the reservations as the equivalent of 25,000 packs because a typical utility or heavy industrial customer would require at least 10 of the packs.

In fact, some evangelists are already calling pay - as - you - go computing «the fifth utility,» a term that neatly sums up the basic idea: Customers use just as much computing power or storage capability or bandwidth as they need for a particular project or period of time.

The attack's target appears to have been Latitude Technologies, a Texas - based provider of electronic data - sharing between pipeline companies and their gas producer and utility customers.

· Some utility companies penalize customers for using inefficient machinery that requires a surge of power at start - up.

The project is one of a growing number of planned battery farms in California and other states, as utilities look for better and greener options to generate and deliver energy to their customers and meet the state's regulations.

Last year, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada issued a report finding that rooftop solar customers actually give back more to the grid than they cost.

Under existing VOS program designs, solar customers continue to purchase all of their electricity from the grid at the utility's retail rate and receive credit for the solar electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.

Energy regulators in the state are battling utility companies over net metering, which is the process through which solar customers get a credit for a certain amount of electricity that they send back to the grid.

SolarCity finances equipment and construction based on customer payments — much like other subscription - based businesses like regional utilities and cable or voice service providers — and receives a steady stream of contracted cash as a result.

First, some background: In December, the Republican - appointed Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) decided in favor of the state's biggest electricity provider and created a new rate class for rooftop solar customers.

«Hydro Ottawa is a progressive, forward - looking Canadian utility that sees the value of innovation and the necessity of brining new solutions and offerings to their customers and stakeholders,» said Ron Dizy, Managing Director of the Advanced Energy Centre.

Tom Ballinger, the commission staff's director of the engineering division, said 700 customers of the state's electric utilities filed comments and that nearly 11 percent of the comments were «positive» about utilities» performance during Irma.

Mrs. Thatcher's ideal was for every employee and customer of British Gas, British Telephone and other major utilities to buy into them and thereby to acquire a stake in their efficient management.

FPL took 10 days to restore power in the state after Irma, which made landfall in the Middle Keys and then swept north through the state, knocking out power to 90 percent of the utility's customers.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.

Among other achievements, Dan brought data - driven energy efficiency services to Maryland's commercial utility customers, wrote the landmark Green Jobs Act of 2007, and championed trade rules aligned with forest, wildlife, and climate protection.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

A four - page bill signed by the state's governor declares that the installation of energy storage by utility customers is in the public interest, and prohibits discriminatory charges or regulatory burdens from interfering with this.

Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) notes that this bill makes Colorado one of the first states to declare that utility customers have a right to install energy storage, and SEIA's interest in the new law shows the growing importance of energy storage to solar markets.

And there are still 61,000 utility customers who've been completely without power since September, the US Department of Energy reported earlier this month.

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

His office represents residential customers in matters before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

Gould said that nearly 5.1 million of his company's customers lost power, but that the utility has already managed to restore electricity to 60 percent of them.

For utilities like Florida Power & Light, the electricity utility that serves about half of the state's 20 million residents along the southern coasts and has 90 percent of its customers within 20 miles of the coast, putting power lines underground increases risks of flood damage, so the move would only trade one hazard for another.

Oscar Mayer has long been the largest customer of the Madison Water Utility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy BarrilleauUtility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleauutility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux said.

Seabased has a signed contract for 100 MW (close to USD $ 200 million) with TC's Energy of Ghana and is currently in late, or final stage, negotiations with other customers for utility scale commercial contracts for an additional 100 MW / USD $ 200 million.

Utilities in California are seeking to reduce the solar credits and limit the amount of customers who can receive them.

Led by the Ministry of Energy and MaRS Discovery District, a working group was formed with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and representatives from the energy sector to adopt and implement the «Green Button data standard» — a common format for customers to securely access their data from their electric utilities.

Utilities argue that customers who generate their own solar power are not paying their fair share of fixed costs, which are then passed on to generally less wealthy, non-solar customers.

The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.